starrylaurie, I'm sorry your first foray was a bad one...
But look at it this way...Everyone has at least one bad experience, you got your requirement met right away!
The sad fact is, take anything you love and try to make a living/profit from it and it becomes "A JOB"...
There's a lot of ways of looking at it...yours, the clients, the "real professionals" (and WHAT makes THEM a "real professional" and you not??)
On the other hand, I will never tell someone to turn "their love" into "their job"...Done that too many times.
Then again I DO have a side business which I DON'T NEED, I charge what I want (too much), I deliver when it's reasonably convenient (up to 2 months), I turn away work I don't want (hassles), I still "mostly" enjoy it... If you could find "that" AND make a full time living from it.... I probably could, now that I've been doing it for almost a decade...But not the kind of living I make presently( a "real job" I actually *mostly* enjoy. I'm lucky)
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